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She sees uniformed officers approaching her. She is holding a weapon and fails to have the basic common sense to realize that perhaps dropping it or placing it on the ground out of her hands and stepping back away from it would be the optimal thing to do in this situation regardless of the language barrier. What if she had been senile or goofy and suddenly lunged and slashed an officer before being neutralized, would that have been a better outcome?
Mayberry is a fabricated fictional town from a television show. This is reality.
This is why immigrants should learn English. My immigrant grandparents went to night school to learn English and encouraged my parents (born here) to speak English instead of their native language.
I grew up with people of Polish and Hungarian descent whose grandparents came to this country in the 1940s-1960s and their grandparents never learned English. They also were never tased out picking dandelions.
The woman has been a naturalized US citizen for nearly 20 years and still cannot understand even the most basic of words and gestures spoken and commonly used in this country. It is doubtful that an 87 year old has never seen uniformed police personnel before. That she was unaware that holding a knife could be perceived as a threat while continuing to advance on the police officers is a reflection on this woman’s lack or inability to exercise reasonably sane judgement and common sense.
She sees uniformed officers approaching her. She is holding a weapon and fails to have the basic common sense to realize that perhaps dropping it or placing it on the ground out of her hands and stepping back away from it would be the optimal thing to do in this situation regardless of the language barrier. What if she had been senile or goofy and suddenly lunged and slashed an officer before being neutralized, would that have been a better outcome?
Mayberry is a fabricated fictional town from a television show. This is reality.
"Mayberry" is actually Mt. Airy, N.C. Andy Griffith grew up there and patterned many of the characters and scenarios from his hometown.
However "Mt. Pilot" is actually Pilot Mount, a large granite rock formation that is a state park. There are surrounding towns around Mt. Airy were used to name characters, like Lawson, Campbell, Taylor, and Crump.
There is no corresponding town for Barney or Opie.
The series was shot in Desilu studios in CA, not in the town of Mt. Airy.
They do not routinely tase old ladies on the Andy Griffith Show for cutting dandelions.
Yeah, don't say how easy or how hard any job a police officer does without walking in their shoes. Go on a Friday night ride-along and see how easy it is.
Not talking about cops response in general, just the old lady picking dandies.
to suggest no one but a cop could judge this situation is invalid.
There are awesome officers and there are stupid incompetent ones....just like any profession. Georgia doesn’t seem to have any good anything. Looking at educational attainment for the state, it’s understandable.
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